Self and NationSAGE Publications, 2001 M05 1 - 256 pages Self and Nation is a lively and accessible exploration of the issues related to nationhood, nationalism and national identity. The authors challenge common assumptions of what 'national identity' means by addressing key concepts of identity, national character, national history and nationalist psychology. How do constructions of national identity affect the way people act, are mobilized, transform societies, create nations and reshape nations where they already exist? This book shows how the central notion of national identity is used by politicians and activists in support of attempts to create different types of nations. Self and Nation will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers in social psychology, politics, sociology and social anthropology. |
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... one's being destroyed . Moreover , if identity is the basis of all one's interests then the destruction of identity undermines one's interests in general . By contrast , the notion of complementarity often forms the focus of sustained ...
... one's position it is possible to transform apparent disaster into triumph . Numbers that might look unpropitious for the representativeness of one's own party can be combined with others so as to establish party prototypicality ...
... one's own nation as well as to others . None of this should surprise us . Once the body politic is likened to the individual body and collective identities are likened to individual characters and selves ( cf. Handler , 1994 ; Jenkins ...
Contents
The National Question | 1 |
Psychology and Nationhood | 28 |
Nation and Mobilization | 57 |
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